"Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels"

Kate Moss has come under criticism for comments that she made during a recent Women’s Wear Daily interview. When asked if she has used a specific mantra in her long career in the fashion world, Moss replied: “There are loads. There’s ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’ That’s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works.”  By the looks of it, it seems that Kate is doing just fine in the looking thin department, perhaps due to her hard partying lifestyle.

Though I can’t sanction all of Moss’s past choices (Pete Doherty anyone?), I really don’t understand the backlash against thin models in the fashion industry who acknowledge that they can’t chow down on everything in sight and maintain their successful careers. I’m not talking about unhealthy or anorexic models—that’s a different case, entirely--but models who are just tinier than most. It should come as no surprise that models are generally thinner and taller than the average person walking down the street, but is that really such a bad thing?

Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s Creative Director said just last month that the world of fashion is about “dreams and illusions” and I can’t say that I necessarily disagree with him. There are certain careers where your physicality does matter. After all, at 5’2”, I could never be a women’s basketball player. Does that mean that I should be personally offended that I would never be accepted with open arms into a profession that I clearly am not meant for?

What do you guys think? Were Kate Moss’s comments out of line? Should the fashion industry stop encouraging their models to be thin?